Chapter 163 Acquisition of Marvel

When will the branch succeed against the parent company? The people under him are panicked, and Daniel Batsek, the top management of the parent company, is personally at the helm of Miramax and is ready to take over the work of the Weinstein brothers.

There is also a separation agreement circulating, according to which the Weinstein brothers will continue to run Miramax's "Timon Films" and the company's partnership with Miramax, including sequels to "Scream" and "Very Little Agent", as well as more than twenty-five other projects, but Quentin Valentino and Kevin Smith, the two "direct directors" of the Weinstein brothers Disney will not have a share of the work, and Disney will pay them $200 million in price for Weinstein to cede control.

Such a big Miramax, the once beautiful Miramax, is only worth 200 million, and the Weinstein brothers are full of sadness.

Equally upset is Iger, who is in charge of Disney Resorts in France and is not allowed to return without orders, and his work is taken over by Michael's close confidant Peter Murphy, typical of rising and falling, and Michael's promised golden parachute is not in place, either turning Disney Resorts in Paris into a profit or resigning from the company.

Iger started from the lowest level of ABC, worked hard for 25 years, climbed to the top step by step, contributed his entire career to Disney and ABC Group, and was one of the directors and shareholders of the company, how could he easily resign and leave?

Whether it is Mark and Meghan, they are happy to see Disney and Miramax unlucky, they have today, they can't do without the two of them personally to promote, Meghan also gloated: "Someone in the publicity and distribution department of Miramax has jumped ship, we will accept it, if there is one that is better and worth poaching, give me the list." ”

A series of successes in the past year, Megan, who is only an eighteen-year-old girl, also has a vigorous and resolute strong woman demeanor, which is exercised, and his playboy brother is completely staying in the crew of "Top Secret Flight", vowing to make a strong comeback next year.

Knowing the outcome of "Top Secret Flight", Mark sighs to the poor kid, and after Danny finishes his debriefing, he goes offline from the conference call, and Mark asks about Meghan's contact with Logan.

Logan Perelman is the son of a Jewish family, the family runs the steel industry, he is a high-IQ tycoon, as early as the 80s was a famous investor, in one fell swoop to buy the famous Revlon Chemical Group, in the 90s to buy Marvel, but he is good at speculation, mergers and acquisitions, not good at management.

Revlon is an internationally renowned cosmetics group with operations in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and as a world leader in the professional marketing of cosmetics, body care, perfumes and personal care products, Revlon's philosophy is to continue to provide high-quality products full of charm, passion and innovation at reasonable prices.

Logan bought the chemical giant by swallowing the elephant, and he personally served as the chairman and chairman of the board of directors of the company, but he was not well managed, and faced the encirclement and suppression of Procter & Gamble and Estee Lauder.

Marvel's situation is similar, when he controlled Marvel, he intended to make it another Disney, but in the face of the industry recession and the financial crisis, Marvel was also in debt, which gave him a lot of headaches.

Now that the Marvel market is picking up, "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" Super big hit, so he saw the possibility of making Marvel bigger, but movies are a high-risk industry, often tens of millions of losses, the best way is to raise funds to share the risk, but when he went to raise funds and met cold, the main reason was that his reputation was not very good in the past, his partners were finished, he lived, and more importantly, Revlon and Marvel were also his partners, so no one was interested in his project, and he wanted to spend more than 100 million yuan to make a special effects blockbuster, and he didn't have the courage, mainly because making movies was risky, and it took a long time, and the return of funds was slow, which could not arouse his interest in speculative business。

Now the media is most interested in the report on Logan's four marriages, which is as eye-catching as his deeds in the business world, recently, the media broke the news that he divorced his fourth wife, and the four divorces have made his purse "hemorrhage", so far, Rogan has broken up with his wife "pay" the total cost has been as high as 140 million US dollars, the media are joking, Rogan divorced, the company's stock price will fall.

Logan's first wife is named Faith Golding, they married in 1967, have four children, in 1984, Logan's underground lover, flower grower Susan Kassim's identity was exposed, it is reported that Rogan first met Kassim was only thirty-two years old, when he took his wife and children to Barbados for a vacation, met Kasem, who was also on vacation with his family, less than eight months later, Kassim became his underground mistress, and their relationship was good and bad.

When Golding found out about their relationship, he quickly divorced Logan, who paid Golding eight million dollars, but Logan, who was single again, did not marry his lover, and his relationship with Kasem soon broke down during an argument.

In 1985, Rogan married his second wife, Cohen, a columnist, and gave birth to a child, in 1994, the two divorced, Cohen received $80 million from Rogan, and the two once turned against each other after the divorce, but in recent years they have become friends again, and when Logan married Barkin in the 2000th year, Cohen was also the man's guest.

Logan is not slow to divorce and remarry, and some media even say that it can be comparable to Rocket, in 1995, he married socialite Patricia Duff, this is his third marriage, Duff is a good friend of former US President Bill Clinton, and there are reports that Duff is Clinton's "confidante" , Hillary suspected that the two were having an affair and warned Duff in person, but unfortunately, the marriage was very short-lived, and the two parted ways in less than three years, Logan paid a huge sum of 30 million dollars for this marriage and the price of turning against his ex-wife, and they later fought for custody of their daughter Kelly.

In June 2000, Logan and Barkin's wedding was lavish, first in a synagogue in New York, and then in one of the most expensive circus restaurants in Manhattan. Styler and Martha Stewart, Queen of Housekeeping.

News about Rogan always made the headlines, not only because of his big affair, but also because of his involvement in the Clinton sex scandal. Lewinsky's girl gets a job, and Logan recommends Lewinsky to the White House as an intern, and as a result, she becomes the heroine of the Clinton sex scandal, which also makes Logan a figure on the cusp and leads to the failure of his third marriage.

Now the media is tracking and reporting how much is his divorce breakup fee, that is, Mark's drunken house opening scandal and shooting gangsters overwhelmed his limelight, Logan, a tycoon who loves to smoke cigars, is good at buying companies at a low price and then splitting them up and selling them to accumulate assets, in 1986, Logan won an important acquisition battle and bought the cosmetics empire Revlon Company, which made him famous in one fell swoop.

In the 80s and 90s of the last century, Rogan continued to make money by buying different companies and selling some of them to cash out, in 1997, his personal net worth was as high as 6.5 billion US dollars, and later due to the losses of Revlon, Marvel and other companies, in 1999, this figure shrank to 3.8 billion US dollars, and now it has dropped to 2.6 billion US dollars.

For the lobbyist sent by MM, intending to buy Marvel, he is happy in his heart, but he is quiet on the surface, he is not Stan Lee and Aland, he regards Marvel as his lifeline, as long as the price is right, there is nothing that cannot be sold, but in business negotiations, he can't let the opponent know the hole cards, how can he naturally look like a man?

After the other party was rejected, he did not entangle and lobby again, and when he was about to lose his breath, the other party sent a more weighty banker Sophia Ronaldson, who inadvertently asked about it in Revlon's debt restructuring meeting, which also expected him, Sophia's children have shares in MM Pictures, and Rogan happily quoted the price, $1.2 billion, which he thought was the right price.

Sophia said: "It's no secret that Viacom is only willing to buy Marvel for 500 million. ”

Logan said: "I don't want to say a word to Lei Shidong, a miser, why didn't he rob it?"

Sophia said: "This is a huge gap from our offer of 650 million. She no longer mentioned this topic, and in the following days, MM did not send anyone, as if she was frightened by his sky-high price of 1.2 billion.

However, with the aggravation of the debt crisis, the bank did not support his debt restructuring proposal and set a repayment period, which made him fail his calculations and took the initiative to find MM, this time the offer was 1.17 billion, and he took the initiative to give 30 million profits.

This time it was Meghan, the MM vice president, who negotiated with him.